JavaScript run by AppleScript to click button and fill text in Safari

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I’m not managing to execute JavaScript in Safari anymore.

I have this working script for Chrome.

set caseID to "11111"
end tell


####################################### time #########
set myDate to date string of (current date)


set myTime to time string of (current date)

set myDateTime to myDate & " - " & myTime


set textToSave to "MY TEXT HERE
HERE
HERE
" & myDateTime

tell application "Google Chrome"
    delay 0.1
    execute front window's active tab javascript "document.getElementsByName('9.9.5.4.5.CSInfoInspector.1.1.1')[0].click();"
    delay 0.1
    execute front window's active tab javascript "document.getElementsByName('05.5.54.5.CSInfoInspector.1.1.5.41.3.7.57.1')[0].value=" & quoted form of textToSave 
    delay 0.1
    execute front window's active tab javascript "document.getElementsByName('5.5.4.5.5.CSInspector.5.1.7')[0].value=" & quoted form of caseID

end tell

I converted to Safari here:

set caseID to "11111"

####################################### time #########
set myDate to date string of (current date)


set myTime to time string of (current date)

set myDateTime to myDate & " - " & myTime


set textToSave to "MY TEXT HERE
HERE
HERE
" & myDateTime

tell application "Safari"
    delay 0.1
    do JavaScript "document.getElementsByName('9.9.5.4.5.CSInfoInspector.1.1.1')[0].click();" in current tab of window 1
    delay 0.1

    do JavaScript "document.getElementsByName('05.5.54.5.CSInfoInspector.1.1.5.41.3.7.57.1')[0].value=" & quoted form of textToSave in current tab of window 1

    do JavaScript "document.getElementsByName('5.5.4.5.5.CSInspector.5.1.7')[0].value=" & quoted form of caseID in current tab of window 1

end tell

The result do return on AppleScript but Safari actually take no action
Result:
"11111"

Basically the script is suppose to click on a button to have a pop windows and fill up the text
What am I doing wrong?

My system:
OS X 10.13.2 (17C202)
Safari Version 11.0.2 (13604.4.7.1.5)

Best Answer

So unlike Chrome where you can just adding few line with different JS code, in safari you have to added for each code do JavaScript and mention the document / tab

e.g :

tell application "Safari"
    delay 0.1
    do JavaScript "document.getElementById('accountEnabledSelection').value=1" in current tab of window 1
    do JavaScript "document.getElementsByName('demo')[0].click();" in current tab of window 1


end tell

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For a minute there I thought you were asking the same question again as last time.

But realise now you want to know how to use Inspect Element to construct your own code.

In the example you give: document.forms[WHATGOESHERE?].click()

The WHATGOESHERE would be the form name.

i.e document.forms['theFormName'].click()

Your website in their wisdom has named the form 'form'

<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/RNAfold.cgi" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form"> <input type="hidden" name="PAGE" value="2">

i.e document.forms['form'].click()

But this would not click the input button

You can use the submit() function dot syntax'd on the end :

document.forms['form'].submit()

Safari Applescript : do JavaScript "document.forms['form'].submit()"

Also

In the code I provided you in your last question. I used:

tell document 1

        do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('proceed')[0].click()"

    end tell

This uses the class Name proceed of the forms input element seen here: class="proceed"

<input value="" name="proceed" type="submit" class="proceed" onmouseover="this.style.cursor="pointer"" style="cursor: pointer;">

The getElementsByClassName('proceed')[0] does exactly what it says.

It gets the Elements By ClassName 'proceed'.

The [0] means it will give you the first element in it's results from the Array that would be returned. The array is counted from 0-9. So the first item would be item 0.

A good place to get working examples and information about Javascript is at www.w3schools.com On the front page the have links to their HTML and Javascript examples and Tutorials. The elements of the HTML Dom and Javascript functions are listed for easy access.

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I found my own answer by digging a little deeper into this.

tell application "Safari"


do JavaScript "document.getElementsByName('files[]')[0].click();" in document 1


end tell

Using getElementsByName and the name attribute 'files[]' was all it took (and by the way was the ONLY way out many, many that worked in this case).

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